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FlavioStiffan
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32 schools and over 300 students have registered for the 2012/2013 Freescale Cup competition across 9 countries. 

This year the race will feature a choice of 2 MCU platforms:

  • Qorivva's MPC5604B 32bit Automotive controller
  • Kinetis ARM Cortex-M4 32bit Industrial microcontroller

Students are working to create the most intelligent race car to win the EMEA Finals that will be held end of March 2013 at the ESIEE Paris. Follow their progress and see their videos on this site.

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FlavioStiffan
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Jozef: just logged into the system successfully (7:44AM). Thanks to try again.

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Jozef_ediv_
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I would like to, but system is currently unavailable. I will try it tomorrow. Hopefully, it will be available. 
Thank you for your help.

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FlavioStiffan
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@Jozef, please enter a ticket for support on our support site and a team will quickly look at this.

Thanks

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FlavioStiffan
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@Jozef, please send me the screen shot via email to flavio.stiffan@freescale.com. I will send it to the CW team. It runs on Windows 7 but I am not a specialist

@Gabriel, curves are by increment of 90deg. We have hill, speed bumps, tunnel and more. You can find some of the pictures on StreetSmarts at this link. You can use the attached track designer file to create a simple loop template for testing your vehicle Track_Designer%20for%20the%20Freescale%20Cup.pdf

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FeliuGabriel
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where can we find a template of the official track ?

I've found one on a CD from USA  but if you say that the curves can be sharp I think there is a new track generator.

 

Another thing :

You tell us that on the official track  can be a hill and a speed bump ? at what angle will they be , so that we can build it on our university.

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Jozef_ediv_
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Is there any version of codewarior which works properly under windows 7 ? The version which is on DVD doesn't work. It still falls down with this message 25-errormessage.JPGIn addition. We can't even start RAppID. What can we do?
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FlavioStiffan
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Track features and hints.

One of the features of this year's race.... a tunnel! Not bad for cars that have to follow a black line on their own. Tunnel clearance is 30cms... careful if you are planning to position your CMOS camera high up! The track also includes sharp curves, speed bumps and a hill (make sure you have enough battery power to pass it!!)

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FlavioStiffan
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@ Matej:

You can use up to 16 sensors of which the camera provided is already 1 of them, this means you can add up to 15 other sensors or cameras. I strongly recommend that you look at the Freescale Sensors offering with Magnetometer and Accelerometers on our sensor home page

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admin
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According to competition rules:

"9. The following limits on hardware will be enforced per vehicle:
(...)

   c. Maximum of sixteen (16) sensors
      i. CMOS camera sensor is 1 sensor
10. Teams must use one of the following camera options:

(...)"

We have question about this part. Does it mean we can use:

a) up to 16 cameras which models must be listed in 10th point.

b) ONLY one camera

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FlavioStiffan
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Yes it is
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rafal_ng
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What about Taos tsl 1401? Is it a substiute for a Parallax TSL1401-DB camera mentioned in rules?
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FlavioStiffan
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Pawel,

Please contact Aleksandra Laskowska at ALaskowska@farnell.com. Farnell normally does not stock CMOS cameras but they told me that they can help.

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PaweNowak
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We are a team from Silesian University of Technology. Last week we received the car kit. We have some questions about cmos camera. We have got TAOS tsl 1401r- lf which is not mentioned in official rules and we do not know if it is recognized as camera or a standard sensor.  For some reasons we would like to use more advanced camera module like Toshiba TCM8240MD but there are problems with its availability in Poland. Could You give us contact to supplier who has this camera?
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VladSandulean
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some might really run "around" the track  :D

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FlavioStiffan
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Off to work! Looking forward to see your car running around the track!
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FeliuGabriel
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yep, yep, yep!

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SorinCracana
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We have received the kits and we are all excited !!!

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FlavioStiffan
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Sorin, 

The kits were sent to our office in Romania for distribution 2 weeks ago and confirmed delivered. I recommend for your coordinator to contact our local office in Bucharest to check. I will also check from my side.

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FeliuGabriel
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As you know , Freescale is  a big company and they are very busy .

 

You'll just have to wait..

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SorinCracana
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Did anyone received the kit until now ? at what date should we expect them to arrive at the TU Iasi for example ?
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FlavioStiffan
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The shipment includes the following: MPC5604B Track Bolero TRAK  board MC33931W motor control board for 2 electric motors (2 H-Bridges on the board) CMOS Camera board Car Chassis with mounting hardware Steering Futaba servo Connecting cables Multi voltage battery charger (so you are equipped for the US in finals in case you are the finalist) 7.2V 2400 mAh NiMH rechargeble battery
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